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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!myall.awadi.com.au!myall!blymn From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: how to setup a SLIP connection??? Date: 21 Aug 1993 07:57:01 GMT Organization: AWA Defence Industries Pty. Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Aug21172701@siren.awadi.com.au> References: <2175@foxim.nl> <1993Aug16.124700.22929@crash> NNTP-Posting-Host: siren.awadi.com.au In-reply-to: warelock@crash.cts.com's message of 16 Aug 93 12:47:00 PDT >>>>> On 16 Aug 93 12:47:00 PDT, warelock@crash.cts.com (Tom Zacharoff) said: Tom> Roland van Hout (rvh@foxim.nl) wrote: Tom> : Tom> : But how do I call out to another system supporting SLIP???? Tom> : Are there any special callout programm's or do you use telnet/tip ??? Tom> : There has to be something with modem configurations and numbers just Tom> : like uucp! Tom> I haven't figured out how to use sliplogin yet but I will soon. The problem Tom> will be dialing out to another system for slip! I've heard of a program called Tom> "dp" that will run as a demon and sense if I'm doing a ftp or telnet and will Tom> manage my modem for automatic dialout to a host slip site. Sounds more like a feature that PPP is rumored to have. I use slip myself along with a couple of scrpts to automatically dial my slip provider. If anyone is interested I will mail them/post the scripts for doing most of a dialout slip connection automagically. -- Brett Lymn